Siegfried Storbeck

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Siegfried Storbeck (born November 25, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German lieutenant general .

Life

Storbeck graduated from school with a secondary school leaving certificate and started training in mining from 1950.

In 1956 he joined the Bundeswehr . From 1964 to 1966 he completed general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. After that he was Deputy Army Attaché at the German Embassy in London . He was also on the staff of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neumünster, as commander of the 183rd Panzer Battalion and as a consultant in the command staff of the Army in Bonn. As a colonel and coming from an adjutant position, he became an army attaché at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. From 1978 to 1980 he was in command of the 36th Panzer Brigade in Bad Mergentheim.

From 1980 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Defense , as a general of the combat troops in the Army Office in Cologne and from 1984 to 1986 as commander of the 12th Panzer Division in Veitshöchheim. In 1986/87 he was briefly chief of staff in the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn. From 1987 to 1991 he was Deputy Inspector General of the German Armed Forces Admiral Dieter Wellershoff .

In 1993/94 he was head of the North Regional District of the Clausewitz Society .

He is married and has three children.

Honors

  • 1984: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1989: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1992: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1994: Golden badge of honor from the Clausewitz Society

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